Long Play 2025: Pete Townshend, Kim Gordon, Max Richter, Tim Hecker, more

The 2025 edition of Bang on a Can‘s Long Play Festival happens May 2-4, with 50 concerts staged at Brooklyn venues BAM, Roulette, Pioneer Works, Issue Project Room, Public Records, BRIC, The Space at Irondale, plus outdoor events and more. Festival passes are on sale now.

They’ve put together a very cool lineup for 2025, including Kim Gordon (playing solo and with Body/Head), Max Richter with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (performing The Blue Notebooks and In A Landscape), Tim Hecker, Nico Muhly, Foodman, Buke and Gase, Ben LaMar Gay Quartet, Mary Halvorson & Bill Frisell duo, percussionist and Vanishing Twin drummer Valentina Magaletti, Fred Frith, Henry Threadgill, and more.

The centerpiece of Long Play 2025 is a 90th birthday celebration for Terry Riley featuring multiple events including Pete Townsend, who will be performing “the original ‘free fall solo version’ of his signature tribute Baba O’Riley”; Bang on a Can All-Stars, premiering a new version of Riley’s A Rainbow in Curved Air, arranged by Gyan Riley; as well as Riley’s classic “In C” performed by an “All-Star cast” including Pete Townshend and special guests.

Check out the 2025 Longplay lineup below.

Long Play 2025 Artists
(more to be announced soon)

Terry Riley 90th Birthday Tribute with Pete Townshend, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Gyan Riley, & Special Guests

Kim Gordon

Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 19 (For 100 Tubas)

andPlay/Catherine

American Opera Projects plays Arvo Pärt

BarTog and Cecilia Lopez

Ben LeMar Gay Quartet

BlackBox Ensemble presents Embodying Eastman: Speculative Listening with Isaac Jean-François

Body / Head

Buke and Gase

Carl Stone / Akaihirume

Caroline Davis and Wendy Eisenberg

Cousin

David Lang Darker, performed by Ensemble Signal, with film by Bill Morrison

dragonchild presents Monument Eternal (for Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda)

Efraín Rozas

emptyset

Ensemble Offspring plays Iannis Xenakis

Fausto Romitello Professor Bad Trip, performed by Talea Ensemble

Foodman

Fred Frith

Gérard Grisey Le Noir de l’Étoile, performed by Talujon

Happy Apple

Henry Threadgill Listen Ship (World Premiere)

Highsmith+ (Craig Taborn, Ikue Mori, Tomeka Reid)

Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids

JJJJJerome Ellis

John Cage Sonatas and Interludes, performed by Adam Tendler

Julia Wolfe Cruel Sister, performed by Ensemble Signal

Kate Moore Rose of roses, Flower of Flowers (World Premiere) + selected works, performed by Ensemble Offspring

Loidis

Lorelei Ensemble plays Christopher Cerrone’s Beaufort Scales

Mary Halvorson & Bill Frisell duo

Max Richter with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble performing The Blue Notebooks and In A Landscape*

Michael Gordon Material, performed by Yarn/Wire

Meara O’Reilly Hockets For Two Voices performed by Mingjia Chen + Linnea Sablosky

Moritz Von Oswald

Nico Muhly The Street, performed by Stef Van Vynckt

Nicole Mitchell/Luke Stewart/Tcheser Holmes

Niecy Blues

Nour Harkati

Peter Evans’ Being & Becoming

Ringdown (Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan)

Salamanda

Sara Serpa, Marta Sanchez, Greg Ward, and Qasim Naqvi

Sophia Jani Six Pieces for Solo Violin, performed by Maiani da Silva

Splinter Reeds plays Paula Matthusen

STRING NOISE plays Christian Wolff’s solo and duo violin pieces

Tashi Wada and friends

The Narcotix

The Rhythm Method with Anaïs Maviel

Tim Hecker

Tomas Fujiwara, Tomeka Reid, Immanuel Wilkins

Tomeka Reid Quartet

Tujiko Noriko

Underground System

Valentina Magaletti

*available with a Long Play MAX PASS only